Category Archives: Columns
What The Heck Is Gus Doing?
Hi. Yes, it’s been a while. Once I fall off the wagon of writing regularly, it’s difficult to get back on. You know how it is. So this bit you’re reading right here is my attempt to get back on the wagon.
This is Sparta!
Lloyd Sabin,
What’s Gus Playing? Wolfenstein 2 – New Colossus!
I don’t play nearly enough shooters, or ‘blockbuster’ games. I am at the age now where the phrase ‘blockbuster’ just turns me off – I guess I’m jaded.
That said, I could not help get wound up in the hype surrounding The New Colossus. And you know what? The damned game delivered. Why it has ‘mixed’ reviews on Steam is beyond me. I don’t even care.
Wolfenstein 2!
By: Lloyd Sabin,
What’s Gus Playing?: Iron Harvest 1920+
The gaming universe of Scythe, set in an alternate Eastern European 1920-era, is right up my street. Replete with steampunk, First World War tech and mechs, it is all I could ever ask for in a game.
When KING Art Games announced the Kickstarter campaign for the directly-related Iron Harvest PC Real Time Strategy game, I immediately contributed as much cash as I could afford. I also recently bought Scythe: Digital Edition PC game on Steam, which has admittedly, so far, been a lot for me to wrap my brain around.
By: Lloyd Sabin,
What’s Gus Playing?: Pike & Shot: Campaigns!
Apologies for that four month break in publishing. Rest assured I was gaming during that time but well…stuff gets in the way sometimes. I will make a strong effort to resume a regular weekly schedule of What I’m Playing from here on out, and will attempt to throw in some other, additional, screen shot features during the week too. It’s what Jarhead and I like to call a ‘resumption of operations.’
By: Lloyd Sabin,
So, without further adieu, I am currently playing – Pike & Shot: Campaigns. Specifically, the Gustavus Adolphus campaign, which could also be labeled as a Thirty Years War campaign. Players can choose to play as either the Swedes or the Holy Roman Empire (read: Germans, of a kaleidoscope of different types).
What’s Gus Playing – Arcanum, Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Our massively miniature munchkin of merriment mulls magickal masterpieces ~
Lloyd Sabin, 27 August 2018
This week my tale is a short and woeful one, with only a few piddling screenshots to show for it. You can’t win them all, right? So being done with Dishonored – Death of the Outsider, I find myself still in a steampunk mood. I have several choices on my HD to satiate such a mood, and Arcanum sounds like a great choice to me.
Steampunk tech and magic IN THE SAME GAME??
My history with Arcanum is much like the story that some guys have about The One Who Got Away…you know, the woman who you fell madly in love with but then ruined it some how and she left, forever. Or a giant fish of some kind that you just could not reel in, I guess. I’m babbling.
I first fired up Arcanum in 2001 when it first came out. I was so psyched. Steampunk tech and magic IN THE SAME GAME?? How did I get so lucky?
I think I ordered the boxed version of it from Amazon and immediately ripped the box apart to install it and then start playing. The intro blew me away. Orc-piloted Eindecker fighters shooting down a zeppelin! Armored knights blowing each other away with high-powered pistols! Refined orcs and elves and humans getting drunk together! This was setting up to be my greatest gaming experience ever!
And then the actual game began. After a few dialogue choices I was totally lost…even after reading through the manual. I got frustrated, not knowing what to do and eventually shelved the game…crestfallen and heartbroken.
